Cheating tennis players

So there's a USTA rated 4.5 player who has speed, control, power on most of his shots. Good first serve, and a low bouncing second. He's practically there anytime any of us show up to play. He's good, I'll give him that. The only bad part of this story is that he makes the worst line calls. His partners usually forgot how to speak when he calls the lines wrong, and we're all just where we are--silent about his cheating.

We obviously know he hooks us on line calls but we just put up with it somehow because he's still hooking us. What would you do realistically, with a real name and face to back it up?

When I'm playing and I see a trend of bad calls, I will question them. I usually play on Har-Tru, so it's easier to dispute a call. I have yet to play someone who will stand by a bad call when they can't find a mark. If someone insisted my shot was out and couldn't find a mark, I would stop playing and not play them any more. I do this for fun, I don't delude myself with ideas of grandeur. If some weird, insecure person needs to cheat to feel good about themselves, they can do it with someone else.

I go out on the court fully expecting at least one bad call. Less than one is a pretty rare occurrence. But we all make bad calls, whether we think so or not. This Youtube video shows a classic example of someone being blind. Classic!

Stop playing with him. If he asks why, explain. If enough people do so, he'll get the picture.

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stop playing with him ? is this doubles ? if you simply stop playing doubles with him then he will just play singles and hook other people. He can still play usta leagues and so on and hook other players there.

I go out on the court fully expecting at least one bad call. Less than one is a pretty rare occurrence. But we all make bad calls, whether we think so or not. This Youtube video shows a classic example of someone being blind. Classic!

This guy truly thought the ball was out, but looks like it was in by 6"!

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Completely agree, but theres a difference between missing a call and hooking calls on purpose. Yeah, everybody makes occasional bad calls, specially in situations where youre wishing or hoping the ball lands out so bad that you may actually see it out, and be sure about it. But I think in those cases you will miss more calls that are out and continue playing than actually calls that are in and you call out. You see this in higher tennis levels, players will continue a point that looks out if its too close to the line. Sometimes you just "know" a ball is landing in, because of how you hit the ball, so its sometimes easy to know a guy is hooking calls on purpose (or because hes gotten used to calling those close balls out!) or if he has missed a call.

haha, and the vid is a beautiful example... Maybe this guy almost always called those shots out and he actually thought he saw them out. Im sure from now on, now that he's seen how far he missed the call his perception has changed. Sometimes it helps to see youre calling it wrong, being with a video or someone standing at the fence and telling you how far you missed a call. Great vid!

Thankfully, I don't run into alot of cheaters, but there's lots of guys out there with bad vision---they "think" they're seeing the ball land correctly, but they're not. So, I try not to play with these guys, especially the ones with a temper.
And I don't play tournaments anymore because of weekend warriors there who cheat, because their friends, wives or girlfriends are watching, and they want to look as good as possible. I don't like paying $35 to enter a tournament just to get cheated, or get into a big shouting match.